DARE: Some of the Popular Images and Themes the Russians Posted on Social Media
Further evidence emerges of Russian operatives interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, including by targeting black voters and dissuading... More
DARE: New Report on Russian Disinformation Shows the Operation’s Scale and Sweep
Advance copies of report prepared for the Senate finds that Russia’s disinformation campaign used every social media platform to deliver content of all... More
DARE: Senate Votes Unanimously to Condemn Saudi Prince as Responsible for Death of Jamal Khashoggi
The Senate votes unanimously to hold the Saudi Crown Prince personally responsible for the death of Jamal Khashoggi, a rebuke to President Trump... More
DARE: National Enquirer Owner Admits It Buried Stories for Trump
National Enquirer admits to having paid off Playboy model in order to protect President Trump from revelations during 2016 campaign. Trump Administration begins to make its influence felt at… More
A PEN Ten Interview with Author Susan Bernhard
"Facts are provable, truths are held, like beliefs. Perception is more interesting to me—how we see a set of facts through the lenses of individual experience." More
An Interview with Tatiana Yankelevich on Sakharov Prize Recipient Oleg Sentsov
Polina Kovaleva speaks to Tatiana Yankelevich on imprisoned writer and filmmaker Oleg Sentsov receiving this year's Sakharov Prize. More
DARE: Google’s Sundar Pichai Was Grilled on Privacy, Data Collection, and China during Congressional Hearing
Google CEO testifies to Congress on allegations of bias against conservatives, data privacy, spread of misinformation, and tailoring a search engine to... More
DARE: Time Magazine Names Jamal Khashoggi and Persecuted Journalists ‘Person of the Year’
Time magazine honors Jamal Khashoggi, Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, the Capital Gazette staff killed in a mass shooting in June, and other journalists killed and... More
DARE: AP, NBC News Tweet Trump Nonsense, Pay Price
Major news organizations come under significant criticism for context-free tweets repeating President Trump’s disputable assertion that new Mueller inves... More
Winter/Spring 2019 Literary Awards Internship
PEN America’s Literary Awards Program seeks diligent, organized interns to assist with the 2019 literary awards cycle. The PEN Literary Awards confer over $350,000 annually to writers and translators.… More
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Poetry by @celesteadame, Ali Cobby Eckermann, @JoyHarjo, @flightless_grey, Kateri Menominee, dg nanouk okpik, and Nicole Wallace, curated by @NatalieGDiaz. https://t.co/h8p5eOW3Aj
A study of tweets sent to 778 women politicians and journalists of the course of a year logged 1.1 million abusive tweets—or one abusive tweet every 30 seconds. https://t.co/NpeYQW0WPh
Benjamin Netanyahu’s son was temporarily banned from Facebook after posting that would prefer an Israel without any Muslims and writing that no attacks occurred “in Iceland and Japan where coincidentally there are no Muslims.” https://t.co/dx5LIWmVuW